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Found an oil company and had them tune up the boiler. Our technician, Tony, is an interesting guy; it took awhile for me to understand where he’s coming from. The first time he visited we had multiple power tools in action and he got frustrated with the noise; to tune a system one needs to listen to it. Our boiler/H2O heater are in a utility room attached to the back of the house and dealing with the snowy cold conditions was also a challenge for him. One discovery was that our third thermostat is non-functioning and we only have two zones. After his visit we still lacked a good understanding of how our system works and how to maximize its performance. For his second visit it was just him and I and much quieter. He gave me a good lesson in the physics of baseboard heaters and helped securely fasten them (they were all left disassembled.) There are bees living in our storage shed; turns out he is a former apiculturist with an ongoing fondness for them. We started chatting about the colony and found a lot of common ground re our philosophies on the interconnectedness of the ecosystem and the dangers it faces.